YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Fly Honeysuckle {Lonicera canadensis). Honeysuckle 
family. May, June. 
A branching shrub, averaging four feet. Flowers in pairs in 
axils, on stalks. Corolla tubular or bell-shaped, three-quarters 
of an inch long, with five rounded lobes. Leaf egg-shaped, 
blunt-pointed, short-stalked, with finely hairy margin. Woods 
and roadsides. 
Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla Lonicera). Honeysuckle 
family. June. 
A shrub with average height of three feet. Flowers generally 
in threes in the axils and at the top; corolla tubular, five-lobed; 
stamens five, stigma globular. Leaves sharply pointed, egg- 
shaped, and toothed. Found on rocks. 
Fringed Loosestrife (Steironema ciliatum). Primrose 
family. June, Jiily. 
A perennial, a foot and a half high, or over, bearing small 
yellow flowers (one-half to one inch broad) on delicate stalks 
in the axils, having five-cleft calyx and corolla and a red centre. 
Leaves broadly lance-shaped, sharp-pointed, rounded at the 
base, with fringed stalks. Low ground. 
Moneywort (Lysimachia Nummularia). Primrose family. 
June to September. 
A trailing vine with bright-yellow flowers, on slender stalks 
in the axils. Flowers an inch broad with apparently five rounded 
petals, though, properly speaking, these are lobes of a united 
(gamopetalous) corolla. Leaves oval, without teeth, and short- 
stalked. Damp groundv^ivhere 
" The money- vine with clinging mj^rtle weaves 
A thick dark carpet, starred with blue and gold." 
— Margaret Deland. 
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